I Spent a Night Without Tel and TV
I Spent a Night Without Tel, TV and Computer
I spent a night all alone in a flat without telephone, television and computer during a weekend! It was very unusual since I have been so accustomed to the metropolitan life that I thought I might not be able to bear the lonely night in a flat without modern electrical appliances.
The flat is located in a quiet eastern suburb of Beijing some 35 kilometers away
from the place I live. I bought it four years ago and it is stuffed with old furniture and used objects now. Although I go there quite often I have never stayed for a night. I have not yet decided to be settled there and that is why I have
not applied for a telephone and a community antenna television.
“Tonight I'll stay over for the night!” I said to myself that night. After a shower I turned on Mozart and then snuggled down in a warm and comfortable bed idly flicking through books and magazines. But soon I could not restrain the desire to search for the things related to the past. I always enjoy rummaging around
in old objects if I have time for almost every piece of old furniture and old things have imprinted the old days of my family. As I was doing so that night I found a large box all by chance. I opened it and was surprised to find that there
were lots of handwriting letters! It was really a miracle that those letters can
be survived from the past decades since I have moved many times in these thirty
years.
I cannot remember from what time we stopped writing letters instead we send emails or chat casually on MSN by tapping keyboard, or making telephone calls to friends and to the loved ones. Now you will understand why I was so pleasantly surprised seeing those yellowish old papers at first. Then old memories awaked in me
as I was reading those letters one after another. Mixture feelings of joy and sorrow came flooding back in my mind. Some oldest letters were written in 60s–70s last century, so it is not inscrutable that a few of those old friends were passed away; many have lost contacts …
Among all the letters the most impressed and important ones were those that my husband wrote to me many years ago. A warm feeling aroused inside me after rereading those love letters because I have experienced a mental storm and emotional struggling in the past few years about our marriage. It is fortunate that we have
not totally lost each other though our marriage did have problems. "We still have a chance!" I encourage myself. At least we both have agreed to reconsider it
before taking further actions. Some things that we used to consider as significant differences do not count for much as we grow older; instead some seemingly small indifferent things say common living habits do matter. Life's gifts are precious, but sometimes we are too heedless of them …
In short, it is not a bad choice to be far from the madding crowd every once in
a while, it is not only acceptable but helpful for physical and mental health. Sometimes we need to be alone to comb our thoguhts and purify our mind.
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